The Osceola times., 1887-09-03

OK the s4th. the schooner Clara, OF Man.
istes, wss driven ashore near Miller, Ind
and her wreckage was strewn along ths
beach for miles Captain Olson, her mas.
ter and owner, and one Of his sailors LOST
their lives, and John Gustavson, the mate
escaped by swimming Ssn6fe on c plank
on the s4th Nathan ph.pps, . coal minel
living at N'l.Wood. seven miles frou
lAtrosc, Pa, shot and mortally W 'unded
his friend, John Robb. after which he
terribly injured Mrs. Phipps, by stabbine
her and breaking several OF her ribs. Hs
then armed himself with rifle and shet
gun and fed 10 the woods
OS the 18th Prof II. \. whitney, Of thu
Excelsior academy, on the shores OF Lake
Minnetonka, was drowned in the lake
Three children were playing cn q raft
which went 10 pieces. and he. swimming
out TO save them, became entangled in the
weeds and was drowned. Two Of the
children were rescued alive, the third was
drowned.
AT Parkersburg. W. Va, ex-Congress-
man Eustace Gibson has been jailed fo'
contempt of court.
AT the Cheboygan mich Lumber Com
pany's mill log carriage was accidently
started ON the evening OF the 25th, result
ing in horrible and probably fatal injuries
to Edmund Lapeer and Dan Albright,
A TERRIBLE explosion occurred III the
engine-room OF Herbert t. Johnsons corn.
canning factory Mt Gorhem, Me-, on the
26th. One man was killed and number
Of others seriously injured.
THE body Of Albert Huber, a prosperous
farmer in Miami, o., was found in his
corn-crib on the morning Of the seth, the
top Of his head blown off, A shotgun by his
side and other circumstances clearly indi-
eating suicide,
FiRk broke out In w. II. Harsh's -four
eiii at Winterset, Ia, on the 26th, and de-
stroyed the entire structure, with all its
contents. Loss. $1,000; insurance, 5000.
The fire Is supposed to have originated
from a hot bon
The owners of the fishing shooner Lydia
r. Crowol!, OF Beverly, Mass, have given
her up for lost. She was ninety five tons
burthen. II is believed that all ON board
were lost. She was in charge of Captain
Moses Larkin, Of Nova Scotia, and had a
crew Of Fifteen men. She was insured.
THE pleasure yacht llifracombe, while
sailing in the Thames on the goth, turned
back to recover boat-hook, which had
fallen overheard, when she was struck by
a squall and capsized. There were twenty
one persons ON board, all Of whom were
thrown into the water and twelve Of them
were drowned,
On the morning OF the 9th the Montreal
tCan.) Herald building was burned for
the second time In five years; loss, $l25,-
900,
OK the 27th, Engineer gurnee, who ran
a passenger train on the Atlantic & Pa
cifc railroad, while oiling his engine at
Flagstaff, Ariz, fell back dead, supposedly
from paralysis Of the brain.
On the 2sth eight men, all members of
Engine Co. No. ., OF Plainfeld, N. j., were
arrested in that city on a charge OF arson.
One Of them, George Jackson confessed
that they had set fire 10 number of places
by using kerosene.
AT an early hour on the morning Of the
2sth the extensive bridge-works of Morse
Bros, at Haselton, a suburb Of Youngs-
town, o., were totally destroyed by fire.
The works were running night and day,
employing three hundred men. All the
machinery, tools and stock on hand were
destroyed. The loss is estimated at 500, =
900, with an insurance Of $4,000.
On the 2sth a passenger train ON the
West Shore railroad collided with freight
train near Port Byron, n. Y. The ex
press messenger was killed, and Engi'
neers Miller, of the passenger train, and
Ludwig, Of the freight train, were in
iured